Thanks Desert Dancer for providing the other side of the story. As I said at the start, I didn't really want to post the full text of Dave's e-mail, but I suppose we all needed to know what he had to say. Having served on enough EFDSS commitees in my time (including the then Sales & Publications sub-committee), I know that communications is not an area in which the society excels.

If the EFDSS wish to change the editor and style of ED&S that is obviously up to them and I will reserve my judgement until the March issue appears. However, I would like to hear a response from the Society to Dave's allegations that he was not given clear and early notice of their intentions regarding ED&S. I have known other occasions when dismissals were handled with very little tact, understanding, or information.

As I have said, I have seen both sides of these matters in the past. One of the rules of committees is that when a motion is passed, objecting members either have to work with it, or resign - they cannot try and sabotage it later. The occasion mentioned by Hrothgar is an example of this, I was on the NEC at the time and (I think enough time has passed to breach confidentiality) although I opposed the motion I had to face a barrage of hostility from Ursula Vaughan-Williams et al at the AGM !